Re: clock_timestamp() and transaction_timestamp() function - Mailing list pgsql-patches

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > Yes, user-visible.  They give additional current timestamp information.
> > transaction_timestamp() is the same as current_timestamp,
> > clock_timestamp is the same as gettimeofday(), and statement_timestamp
> > is a new one that shows statement start time.
>
> And what would be the point of that?

The goal was to give a unified API to the various time measurements:

    [clock|statement|transaction]_timestamp


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